diff --git a/locale/en/blog/pyramid-scheme.md b/locale/en/blog/pyramid-scheme.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f68adb1d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/locale/en/blog/pyramid-scheme.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +# Gender binary is a pyramid scheme. Gender liberation helps everyone, cis people included. + +2022-11-03 | [@andrea](/@andrea) + +Screenshot of a tweet quoted below. A meme with a muscular doge labeled “Trans Guys – I am a man, in spite of a society that insisted otherwise from birth” and a sad doge labeled “Alpha Males – To be a man, I have to do arbitrary performative nonsense perfectly or my card will be revoked!” + +{disable_twemoji} + +
CW: homophobic slur
+ +At a recent meeting of the International Nonbinary Network Felix from [SIB](https://www.facebook.com/SverigesIckebinara) +said a sentence that really stuck with me. Paraphrasing: + +> Gender binary is a pyramid scheme — if you don't recruit a bunch of people and police their behaviour, the whole system will collapse. + +{twemoji} + +Back when I thought I was a man, I kept finding “being a man” to be quite exhausting. +Your voice can't be too high. You can't shave your armpits, that's for girls. +Your football skills must be at least adequate. And you have to _enjoy_ playing it. +You can't paint your nails, what are you, a fag? You have to be strong and brave… you chicken! +That's not manly! Men don't cry! … Oh, just shut up! 🤮 + +{/twemoji} + +And that's how I felt being on the _privileged_ side of the patriarchy! +If I had been AFAB, +I'd definitely have had even worse time trying to uphold gender norms. + +The society polices them constantly. If you don't look or behave 100% like a Real Man™ or a Real Woman™, +if your face or voice or shoes or clothes or makeup or relationship or ringtone or brand of shaving cream or mannerism or whatever else +doesn't match someone else's idea of what a Real Man™ or a Real Woman™ is or does, +you can be mocked, called slurs, you can lose friends… +Doubting or diminishing someone's masculinity or femininity is a common way to insult people. +Totally straight guys get called homophobic slurs all the time – because of the common understanding +that being a “fag” is not what Real Men™ do, so that's an easy way to go after someone's masculinity. +Pop culture promotes unreasonable beauty standards and many cis people spend huge amounts of money +on gender affirming surgeries trying to reach them (they just don't call it that). + +

Elon Musk has had more gender affirming surgeries than most trans people.

I’m not trying to upset the fanboys, just simply exercising my freedom of speech. So glad that I can state my opinions without having to worry about triggered snowflakes. pic.twitter.com/s9PFudjG6T

— kaceytron (@kaceytron) November 1, 2022
+ +Having to _perform gender_ in order to please other people is just dreadful. +And that's why I love inclusive queer spaces so much! +If you come in and say “Hi, I'm Mike, I'm a man” – no one will doubt that you're a man. Simple as that. +You don't need a beard to be a man, you don't need a penis, nor a deep voice, nor any specific passions or interests. +You don't need to love sports, or know how to shoot a gun, or whatever else people might expect from men. +Just say who you are, and we'll believe you. We'll treat you and your identity with respect. + +

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— DJ Cthulhuween 🎃🐙🎧 (@RealDJCthulhu) October 21, 2022
+ +In the pyramid scheme of gender norms, we all lose, we all suffer. +All it's good for is making some people feel like they're better that others just because they perform their gender “better”. + +**This pyramid scheme will fall apart if only we stop recruiting people to it. +Just stop gatekeeping other people's identity, simple as that.** +A woman has short hair? Good for her. A boy likes dolls? Sure, why not! An enby doesn't look androgynous? Cool! +A person uses a label that we don't understand? Well, let's maybe try to understand it – or just leave it and mind our own business. +Someone's definition of a label doesn't exactly match our definition? +Well, as long as it makes sense to them, let's just be happy for them that they found a word that they feel best describes them. + +Can you imagine, how beautiful the world would be if we just stopped policing other people's gender, if we just kept our noses out of it? +If TERFs stopped trying to restrict who can be a woman, if truscums stopped trying restrict who can be trans, +if, I don't know, your basketball buddies stopped making fun of you for liking soap operas? + +{twemoji} + +Trans people are hit way harder by gender norms, so we're fighting back harder. +But it's not just our fight. We can _all_ benefit from dismantling that pyramid scheme. +By simply not contributing to it anymore 😉 + +{/twemoji} diff --git a/locale/en/img/blog/alpha-males.png b/locale/en/img/blog/alpha-males.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ac61ea6ff Binary files /dev/null and b/locale/en/img/blog/alpha-males.png differ diff --git a/routes/blogEntry.vue b/routes/blogEntry.vue index 5c73ed355..7bf6448bd 100644 --- a/routes/blogEntry.vue +++ b/routes/blogEntry.vue @@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ async asyncData({route}) { return parseMarkdown((await import(`../data/blog/${route.params.slug || route.meta[0].slug}.md`)).default); }, + async mounted() { + if (!process.client) { return; } + + if (this.content.includes('twitter-tweet')) { + await this.$loadScript('twitter', 'https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js'); + } + }, head() { return head({ title: this.title,